Here's Looking At..... Me...... by RodS
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Here’s a little experiment I tried last night (late last night..), and I’m pretty pleased with the result.
How many times have you seen a face, and wanted to tweak Vicky’s (or LaFemme’s) head / face morphs to resemble that face? (I’m speaking mainly to Poser users, for this technique. For DAZ users, ‘FaceGen’ is an app that works quite well for this). There is an app called ‘Blacksmith’ that will work reasonably well. I’ve used it before with fairly good results, but I’ve never been totally satisfied with the results.
I got the idea for this a while back and decided to give it a try. If there is enough interest, I can put together a short tutorial on how I did this. One caveat is you need to have one of the later versions of Photoshop that has the 3D features.
Basically, what I did was this:
I used a face (the picture she’s holding) I made while messing around in Artbreeder some time ago. I opened the face image in Photoshop CC and made a 3D “postcard” – which is essentially just a flat plane with the image on one side. I saved it as an .obj file, with the image texture.
I opened up Poser 11.3 and loaded the default V4. I imported the .obj file, and brought it front of Vicky (on the Z axis). I went into the materials tab, selected the ‘postcard’ obj, and adjusted the transparency down to around 50% so I could see V4 behind it (using the face camera). I then re-sized the postcard size to match Vicky’s face as closely as possible.
From there it was just a matter of tweaking the dials to get the eyes, nose, mouth, facial structure, etc. to match the face image as closely as possible.
There are some slight differences, but overall, I think it turned out pretty well for a first try. I’m going to try a couple more radical faces soon.. I might try seeing how close I can come to Ahsoka Tano’s face next..
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Comments (36)
You have mad skills! Wow!!!
**Before I read your explanation, I thought it was a "This is how I look with make-up" image. It's amazingly close.
Awesome work!
Excellent
Great job!
Just fabulous awesome, exquisite brilliant, magnificent Masterpiece of Finest Arts. I love it!
forgive me if the technical detail (in your description) goes past me, only because I don't use most of the programs you use, so all I can do is appreciate the principles involved. But I really like what you tried to do: Vicky seems to be showing everyone one of her head-shots, as if to say "this is how I present myself in the business world everyday". A really different version of her, with more light, less life in her hair, brighter eyes, less tan, etc. It's really two different Vicky's, each one done with care. The 'real' Vicky has wonderful chrome hues on her outfit, and I like how she stares starkly, to match the stare in her photo. She almost seems to be saying "take your pick". Sexy outfit, very nice tanned skin tone, and the wooden wall is a sweet contrast. I really like your concept. (It's always fun to see you play around with your mediums...) A kind of 'theme and variation'. The photo is really a different, more stark, presentational shot. (Which is why I think "head shot".)